Posted on 08/25/2022 10:41:19 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
It sounded like a dream come true, complete with a handsome prince riding to the rescue: the construction of 109 new, sustainable, flood-proof and affordable houses in New Orleans’s Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward, all thanks to movie star Brad Pitt.
But the houses that were built fell far short of Pitt’s 2006 promises: they were plagued by mold, electrical fires and unclean water.
On Tuesday, 13 years after Hurricane Katrina victims started moving into the buildings, Pitt and his foundation agreed to a settlement that will pay $20.5m to homeowners whose properties began to deteriorate almost as soon as they bought them.
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Another article on the same story stated that there were 109 houses constructed.
$20.5 million divided by 109 = $183K (less the lawyers cut).
No good deed goes unpunished.
It was worse than that.
Each homeowner can ‘apply for’, what was it, $20,000 ?
A ‘white knight’ came in and funded the deal.
This is a repeat article, I just don’t want to bother going to look up the details again.
Um, everything ‘starts to deteriorate’ as soon as it is finished. It is the nature of the world... ‘whose properties began to deteriorate almost as soon’
No good deed goes unpunished in America.
No good deed goes unpunished.
No joke
Attorney gets 33% if the case doesn’t “go to court”. If it does they normally collect 40%....I’ve seen lawyers use some real creative ways to collect that other 7%.
Those vultures don’t miss a trick that’s for sure.
That money will be gone by Sunday morning.
Totally unrelated. But can Brad Pitt not wash his hair? It always looks greasy.
All that virtue signalling is getting expensive. Going to need to make some more movies?
In America, lawyers are moving electronic digits around on computer screens, while in countries like Russia, people are producing actual physical commodities.
Yeah, by my math the settlement is $188K per house, $124K post-atty. That’s a hella lot of remediation. So how could these homes be built in the first place if they didn’t meet nominal local codes for drainage, roof pitches, etc;?
Ah well, I assume Mr. Pitt can handle it. I don’t think he set out to build substandard houses.
Surely, the lawyers receive part of that settlement.
The remainder goes to renovation and repair? Who will oversee that?
Why let them rebuild shot gun shacks in the poorest park of the city that is the most UNDER sea level
That’s what happens in N.C. The state tells home owners that have property on the beach if a hurricane destroys it they can’t build back there.
Can’t say I disagree with that, makes total sense.
Did you ever see the movie “Kalifornia” ?
It was one of Pitt’s early movies.
He did a tremendous job playing a scum bag dirt ball murderer psycho.
In the movie “Snatch” he played a gypsy.
In the movie “Fight Club” he played another memorable role.
He actually is a pretty good actor.
In a civil trial I was a juror on, the plaintiffs attorneys were brothers and one got on the stand while the other questioned him, in order to prove that they exercised “billing judgment“ and were not asking for anywhere near as much as they were professionally entitled to. We still awarded them less.
Yep. Sue the local inspectors for approving it.
Kalifornia was horrifying, thanks to Pitt’s effective performance. Not a film I’d recommend to people, but one I never forgot.
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